This blog post is recording my journey on proof of concept development on ionic 4 capacitor & PWA development in December 2018, just note down some obstacles I faced or founding in the journey, and this is not a tutorial.

Although Progressive Web Apps (PWA) are installable without app store, as of today business requirement may still need the distribute channel via app store. With ionic (UI) and Cordova framework, one single code base can serve native apps and web apps together.

ionic 4

Capacitor or Stencil

Capacitor is still in Release Candidate in Dec 2018, and 1.0 production in 2019. Integrate with Angular. Cross platform: iOS, android, Web, Electron (win & macOS)